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Hmmm....
Authored by: macman13 on Oct 16, '02 01:04:29PM

Not to flame ya or anything ...

But I work with my TiBook on a windows network. I store all
of my documents on a windows share volume that I have aliased
on my Mac. I have yet to have a single problem with
SMB. (small or large files) Maybe I'm just lucky. But Samba
has been used successfully for a long time by Unix folks.
Long before OSX got here. I used to use it all the time
on my linux box before OSX came out. Same network no problems.

So before we dog samba, you should check your network. I got a
feeling your timeouts are due to Airport and it's slow
connection and not necessarily Samba. I use my airport card
with another mac at home so I could not check your set-up
with a Windows network. You could always set-up Appletalk
if you have w2000 server as mentioned previously. Then you could
make an appletalk connection over ssh and mount drives that way.
But as slow as you wireless connection will be, ftp may not be a bad
solution.

Good Luck.
SA



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FTP is still the fastest !
Authored by: tarkin on Oct 16, '02 02:29:21PM

Samba works great, but any FTP solution is faster.
Try it and see for yourself ;-)



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FTP is still the fastest !
Authored by: iMMersE on Oct 16, '02 06:40:03PM

I dunno, I'm getting speeds of close to 5Mb/s using samba and FTP - For me at least, using a 100Mbps through a hub, there are no real differences with speed, not that I've noticed anyway. Samba is my choice du jour, you can mount the drives, and edit files in place. I've not had any problems with Samba, so I'm hoping (unfortunately, for the author) that his experience is an expection rather than the rule.



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FTP is still the fastest !
Authored by: filburt1 on Oct 16, '02 07:07:10PM

FYI, I'm using 10.2.1, upgraded from 10.2.0, from 10.1.5 and maybe a previous version before that when I first bought the iBook.



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FTP is still the fastest !
Authored by: necrosis on Oct 17, '02 04:56:59AM

Yes FTP may be fast but there is one thing that FTP dosent allow. Running of files without coping the file to your computer. I do this ALOT. Mostly with divx files and MP3's.

I also have had NO trouble with samba in OSX. Granted Apple really screwed up in desinging it cause the samba options are all over the OS, and there is no 'easy' way to add shares other than editing the smb.conf file manually. And yes, I have tried to enable SWAT, but I tried EVERY tip here and I constantly get the same error, even on a squeky clean install.



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